Watercolour painting
Subject
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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee watercolours of Rhodesia and South Africa
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 195
Scope and Contents
A series of watercolours commissioned from the Rhodesian artist Mrs Gilbert Stephenson to be used in colouring lantern slides to illustrate the fifth handbook, A.J. Sargent, 'South Africa: seven lectures (London, 1914). Stephenson had been recommended by the British South Africa Company. The numbering used in the catalogue reflects Stephenson's own numbering. The scenes cover: Northern Rhodesia [i.e. Zambia], including Victoria Falls and the Tanganyika Plateau; Southern Rhodesia [i.e....
Dates:
1913 - 1914
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Item
Colour Diary of watercolours from voyage to the British Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Australia, 1914-07 - 1914-11
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/SEW/4/3/1
Scope and Contents
Marion was a talented artist and accompanied her husband to the Australian conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1914, painting a 'Colour Diary' of 160 watercolours recording their destinations on the four month voyage (during which time the First World War broke out). Includes photographic portrait of Marion, 1923, and watercolours of the following (various views of each and others included, plus several sunsets and sea views): Plymouth; Tenerife; Cape...
Dates:
1914-07 - 1914-11
Conditions Governing Access:
Open to researchers. Permission from the family needed for publication requests.
Found in:
Downing College
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Personal, Private and Academic papers of Downing members and associates
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Papers of Sir Albert Charles Seward, Master of Downing College (1915-1936)
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Family papers and photographs of Albert Charles Seward and Marion Seward and their children (mainly copies)
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Papers of Marion Seward
File
Marion Seward (nee Brewis), 1890 - 1924
File
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/SEW/4/2/1/4
Scope and Contents
Includes: portrait photographs of Marion as a younger and older woman (one with the following information on the back: "Hon. Secretary of the Cambridge Tipperary Club - with 800 members, one of the largest in the country... A nursery is attached, a Library and various entertainments arranged. Chairman of the Communal Kitchen Committee and serving on the committees of various other war activities.") Other photographs show Marion sketching in a variety of locations (including on Paris Plage...
Dates:
1890 - 1924
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Open to researchers. The majority of the collection is available in digital form only. Publication requests to be approved by the family.
Found in:
Downing College
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Personal, Private and Academic papers of Downing members and associates
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Papers of Sir Albert Charles Seward, Master of Downing College (1915-1936)
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Family papers and photographs of Albert Charles Seward and Marion Seward and their children (mainly copies)
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Family photographs (mainly copies)
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Loose photographs, mainly formal portrait photographs
Sub-Series
Sketchbooks, 1821-1844
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/590/ADSW/01/03
Scope and Contents
Comprising sketchbooks with pencil, ink and watercolour sketches of geological features.
Dates:
1821-1844
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.
The Collections Research Centre [West Cambridge] is open from Monday to Friday, 10:00-13:00 and 14:00-17:00. A prior appointment made at least two weeks in advance, and two forms of identification are required.
Fonds
Water colours and sketches of southern Africa
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 191
Scope and Contents
Water colours and pen and ink sketches documenting Anderson's travels in southern Africa, accompanied by his original captions and explanatory notes. The original titles and captions have been enclosed in single quotation marks, and have been transcribed in the catalogue as found, with the exception of an egregiously offensive term used in some titles, which has not been transcribed. Where possible, modern place names have been supplied.
Dates:
1868 - 1890
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
File
Watercolour cards from Roy Mason, [c. 1980] - [c. 2000]
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MRCF 2/4
Scope and Contents
Cards featuring original watercolour paintings by artists Ashley Jackson and Les Packham. Sent to Moncrieff by Roy Mason (Baron Mason of Barnsley).
Subjects of the paintings include: the Houses of Parliament; Flamborough Head; Yorkshire pit closures; Big Ben; Yorkshire dales; Cannon Hall Farm; the Millennium Dome.
Dates:
[c. 1980] - [c. 2000]
Conditions Governing Access:
This file is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge.